Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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What else is broken at Twitter?
https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk
Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions — and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken. We have been unable to find anyone who can help us, and with Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move to a paid model for gathering tweet data, it’s no longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on which to maintain this work. ...
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Another round of job cuts at Twitter:
"At least 50" people were let go this time.
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Yet another Twitter outage:
"... the sixth major outage since January 23." ...
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Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?
This is me:
This is me on Twitter:
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https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss
Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
(Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now. -
@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.
Presumably that path doesn't involve him selling it to somebody who knows what they're doing?
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Twitter no long exists as a company. It has been absorbed by X Corp.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk/index.html
80% cut in staff headcount
Musk claims (what's formerly known as) Twitter is now "breaking even" and advertisers are coming back. -
@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
80% cut in staff headcount
Musk claims (what's formerly known as) Twitter is now "breaking even" and advertisers are coming back.One has to wonder...from and end-user standpoint Twitter is little-changed from what it was a year ago.
Yea, there have been changes as to policy, procedures, etc. Changes in "blue checks" and all that other crap have occurred. But, my experience is not very different from it was a year ago.
So, one has to wonder, what were those 80% doing? Were they doing computer preventive maintenance? Were they "innovating?" The platform seems to be just fine.
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Musk's BBC interview.
Elon Musk tells BBC that owning Twitter has been quite painful
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65248196 -
That was pretty embarrassing. Looking at Debra Faushay's Twitter, she actually wasn't being sarcastic
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If Musk can make Twitter profitable (he said when took over, they were about 90 days from going bust) what does that say about his business skills? Secondly, if he can show a good set of books, does he sell Twitter?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7beya/elon-musk-twitter-blue-verification
… Rather than being a much sought-after status symbol and revenue driver, the new blue check is being seen more like a scarlet letter, and Musk spent the weekend personally giving them to famous people who were forced to loudly clarify that they don’t want them. …
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@Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
If Musk can make Twitter profitable (he said when took over, they were about 90 days from going bust) what does that say about his business skills?
Being profitable is usually better than otherwise, just not always. An enterprise going from $1 Billion revenue with $10 Million loss to $10 revenue with 10¢ profit has also turned profitable, though some people may not be all that impressed by the CEO who transformed the enterprise with that trajectory.
That said, if I were a Twitter stockholder not long before Musk announced his takeover bid, I would likely be very happy because it might take a very long time (if ever) for Twitter’s valuation as a public company to rise to Musk’s offer.
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Fox News: Liberal celebs, journalists furious that Musk gave them their blue check back: 'Without my consent'
The Twitter Blue Check as a status symbol, now the status of a pariah.
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Twitter changes description on Blue Check Mark
https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-changes-twitter-blue-143900665.html
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Twitter Is Now Worth Just 33% of Elon Musk’s Purchase Price
Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity, which recently marked down the value of its equity stake in the company.
Musk has acknowledged he overpaid for Twitter, which he bought for $44 billion, including $33.5 billion in equity. More recently, he said Twitter is worth less than half what he paid for it. It’s unclear how Fidelity arrived at its new, lower valuation or whether it receives any non-public information from the company.
Fidelity first reduced the value of its Twitter stake in November, to 44% of the purchase price. That was followed by further markdowns in December and February.
Twitter has struggled financially since Musk took over. After saddling the company with $13 billion of debt, Musk’s erratic decision making and challenges with content moderation led advertising revenue to decline by 50%, Musk said in March. An attempt to recoup that revenue by selling Twitter Blue subscriptions has so far failed to take off. At the end of March, less than 1% of Twitter’s monthly users had signed up.
Twitter didn’t specifically respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s investment in Twitter is now worth $8.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which uses Fidelity’s valuation to calculate the value of his holding. Musk spent more than $25 billion to acquire an estimated 79% stake in the company last year.
The latest markdown erases about $850 million from Musk’s $187 billion fortune, according to the index. Despite Twitter’s issues, Musk’s wealth is up more than $48 billion this year, largely due to a 63% surge in Tesla Inc.’s share price.
